“Thrumming with life” – I Walk Between the Raindrops by TC Boyle
“Luxuriate in its company” – The Secret Life of Fungi by Aliya Whiteley
“You’ll hoover it up” – Treasure State by CJ Box
“A magnificent piece of work” – Ducks by Kate Beaton
“A live wire book” – Industry of Magic & Light by David Keenan
“Solid Gauld!” – Revenge of the Librarians by Tom Gauld
“Very accessible, very absorbing, definitely recommended” – Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo
“At the height of his powers” – The Making of Incarnation by Tom McCarthy
“In the edge-lands of the action-zone” – The Unfolding by AM Homes
“A strange one” – Nina Simone’s Gum by Warren Ellis
“Almost Brautigan-like charm” – Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi (trans. Lucy North & David Boyd)
“An essential read for Pullman fans” – The Collectors by Philip Pullman
“Seemingly abstruse” – My Mind To Me a Kingdom Is by Paul Stanbridge
“An impressive debut collection” – Animals at Night by Naomi Booth
“Beautiful, tender and severe” – A Hunger by Ross Raisin
“A clarion call” – Hysterical by Pragya Agarwal
“You cannot continue to meander” – Lessons by Ian McEwan
“A fun Stephen King book” – Fairy Tale by Stephen King
“A welcome republication” – Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965, [ed. Mark Andryczyk]
“Not the eviscerating satire I’d hoped for” – Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart
“All killer no filler” – Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller
“Profound and engrossing” – The Dawn of Language by Sverker Johansson
“German Romanticism” – Magnificent Rebels by Andrea Wolf
“Detailed and necessary” – A Home of One’s Own by Hashi Mohamed
“Not a lot of room left for the reader” – Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley #bookerlonglist
“A spider web of wider resonances” – Dark Music by David Lagercrantz
“Highly recommended” – The Colony by Audrey Magee #bookerlonglist
“Always entertaining” – A Loyal Traitor by Tim Glister
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